One of the key benchmarks that have been used in the industry is Cinebench. The latest version has been Cinebench R15, released for version 15 of Cinema 4D. In recent years it has slowly become less relevant, as Maxon has moved through to version 19 and 20 of the software. To match the latest version of the software, the company has now launched the Cinebench R20 benchmark.

The benchmark is already available from the Maxon website, working through the Windows Store or the Apple App Store on Macs. It does not look like there is a separate standalone download.

The new benchmark implements a number of new features available for x86 processors. This includes newer AVX instructions, implemented through Intel's Embree raytracing technology, applicable on both AMD and Intel processors. The new benchmark focuses purely on CPU performance, and solves one of the issues with the R15 version - it now scales beyond 64 threads better by having a larger scene. There will be a minimum performance limit to run the new benchmark, which is listed as a memory limit.

Similar to R15, there is a single threaded test and a multithreaded test. The GPU test has been dropped (it hasn't been relevant for a long time).

For performance, the following results are provided as standard in the benchmark download:

Except you're wrong because the 6900K has 8 cores and scores just slightly more than Ryzen 1700X which is inline with every other benchmark. So it's not really 'far ahead' given the core count and it's position as HEDT at the time of release.

You'll always see decent scaling with frequency unless there is a bottleneck feeding the instructions or whatever. "Cinebench scales with core count as opposed to clock speed" makes no sense whatsoever. What you meant to say that it scales with core count well. Scaling with frequency is implicit.

The only hexa core that would score >3500 is the 8700K anyway, just use common sense.Reply